wp-load.php

The function is called the_post() (no plural s).

Note that simply bootstrapping directly for a one off temporary file is never the optimal solution, and bad practice, and tends to introduce lots of problems. E.g. in your case, you might have WordPress functions available, but no theme files or APIs are triggered. Instead, there are better ways to do it. This isn’t considered … Read more

Exploiting WordPress Core Functionality for Development

Which position is after `wp-load.php`?

I’d use the REST API to get the latest 10 posts from each install, then combine the two arrays, sort them by the date, and then only use the latest 10 results. $editorials = wp_remote_get( ‘https://www.example.com/editorials/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/’ ); $news = wp_remote_get( ‘https://www.example.com/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/’ ); $editorials = json_decode( $editorials[ ‘body’ ] ); $news = json_decode( $news[ ‘body’ ] … Read more

Here was the fix supplied by Flywheel support. They went above and beyond to help me figure this out. Amazing! <?php // let’s load WordPress require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-load.php’); require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/admin.php’); //send_nosniff_header(); nxs_ajax_webmethods(); die(); ?>

You should be using admin-ajax.php for your AJAX requests and WordPress has pretty good wrappers and actions to help you do that. In terms of performance, 3-4s is pretty harsh. WordPress will typically serve a non-cached request in about 300ms out of the box, so some other theme or plugin is adding to that time, … Read more

You don’t need to load wp-load.php, you can build an endpoint to poll with javascript using a REST API endpoint. In your plugin, or functions.php, we’re going to create an example endpoint, it will live at https://yoursite.com/wp-json/yourname/v1/yourendpoint, it will take in parameters, and reply with a snippet of JSON, just as you would expect from … Read more